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What does "nickel" mean?

Perfect, spotless, all good.

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🇫🇷 French
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Friends & informal

How it's actually used

Confirms that something is sorted, and also describes something genuinely immaculate. "Nickel!" on its own means "perfect."

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Where it comes from

From the metal — nickel-plated surfaces were the byword for spotlessly clean.

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